Martijn Tonies wrote:

>>>Also, if Microsoft Access is thought of as a real alternative in the
>>>questions asked, what about XML files?
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>>What about them?
>>
>>I find XML files support in DBMS to be a marketing trick and nothing more.
>>
>>--
>>Milan Babuskov
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> What he said.
>
> XML doesn't belong in a db _except_ for "original storage purposes".

XML is a transport mechanism - pure and simple.
Provides a sensible way of data requests and returning results, but
ANYTHING would be faster and more compact in practice :)
200 pages of documentation to define an address! :(

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